Upcoming Webinar: Enhancing Small Molecule Discovery – A Customer Perspective on Integration of Torx Software and CDD Vault for Global Collaboration and Seamless Compound Registration

Join us for an insightful webinar where we explore the powerful combination of Torx® Software (the collaboration between Cresset and Elixir™ Software) and CDD Vault®, two advanced software systems designed to transform drug discovery. Dr. Tao Zheng and Dr. Marco Falcioni of Octant, a customer of both CDD Vault and Cresset's Torx, along with product specialists Mari Goldsmith (Torx) and Dr. Kelly Bachovchin will discuss Octant's implementation of CDD Vault and Torx in their DMTA (Design-Make-Test-Analyze) discovery workflow, and the benefits that the integration brings them. Don’t miss this opportunity to see how integrating Torx and CDD Vault can elevate your drug discovery process.

Octant:

Marco Falcioni, PhD.
Senior Software Engineer
Octant 

Product Specialists:

Mari Goldsmith
Senior Application Scientist
Torx

Kelly Bachovchin, PhD
Customer Engagement Scientist
Collaborative Drug Discovery

Speaker Biographies

Marco Falcioni is a software engineer with over two decades of experience in cheminformatics, bioinformatics and enterprise software development. He earned his PhD in physics at Syracuse University and completed postdoctoral studies at UCLA. He started his career at Symyx Technologies (now Biovia) working on cheminformatics, LIMS and ELN. In the past decade Marco worked in early startups and larger companies, ranging from clinical human genetics to synthetic biology. Marco joined the Compute team at Octant in early 2023.

Tao Zheng is Torx's medicinal chemist. She received her PhD in organic chemistry from Michigan State University in 2006 and spent two years at UC Davis as a postdoctoral fellow. She returned to China to begin her career in process chemistry and custom organic synthesis. In 2016, she brought her talents back to the United States, working for Nanosyn, Inc in Santa Clara CA for five years before joining Octant in September 2021.

Mari Goldsmith has over 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry at Lilly, starting off in analytical chemistry, focusing mainly on purification using SFC and prep-LC-MS. Following the completion of her MChem via day release, she transitioned to medicinal chemistry working in therapeutic areas such as pain, endocrine and neuroscience, as well as two secondments in computational chemistry. Mari joined Torx Software in 2021 where she is a Senior Applications Scientist.

Kelly Bachovchin joined the CDD support team to begin her industrial career after completing her PhD in Chemistry at Northeastern University. While at Northeastern, Kelly’s researched focused on synthesizing and optimizing small molecule compounds for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases as part of Professor Michael Pollastri’s lab. Before receiving her PhD, Kelly also obtained a Master’s degree in Biotechnology and Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology, both from Kean University. As a former customer/user of CDD vault, Kelly has experienced first-hand how CDD vault is a powerful and collaborative platform. She wishes to help other scientists to better manage their data and globally connect to further their research as she embarks on her career at CDD.